You can be exactly right for a job and still be impossible to sponsor. It is decided by the occupation code your title lands on, and the advert never mentions it. Paste one and find out in ten seconds, before you spend the week.
Then, once it clears, we read your CV against that same advert, requirement by requirement, and tell you what it does not yet evidence.
The code the employer has to file you under. Decided by your job title, not by your work.
291 of 412 codes cannot sponsor a new applicant, at any salary.
As a recent graduate you get the new entrant rate, which is lower than the headline figure.
Being on the register is not enough. It has to be a Skilled Worker licence.
Every code sits in a tier, and the tier is set by the words in the title rather than by the work. Some tiers are almost entirely open. Others are shut completely.
Closed share by the tier a job title lands in. “Executive”, “officer”, “assistant” and “coordinator” land you in the tiers where almost nothing is open.
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Marketing manager, open. Marketing executive, closed. One word apart.
A recent graduate counts as a new entrant, which lowers the threshold to 70% of the going rate for that code. The general threshold is £41,700. Yours is almost certainly lower.
£33,400 is the hard floor for a new entrant. Below it, no code qualifies.
So once an advert clears, we read your CV against that advert, requirement by requirement. Not a score out of ten, and not a keyword count. Which of the employer’s own asks you have evidenced, and which you have not.
It reads by meaning. Leading a team of six answers a request for line management, and a tool sitting in your skills list is not the same as having used it. A keyword matcher cannot tell those apart, which is why it passes CVs that a human then rejects.
Their requirements, your evidence
Then an ATS-ready CV built from your own words and aimed at this advert. Nothing invented. Your CV is read in memory and never stored.
Almost everything in this space is a copy of the sponsor register. It tells you a company holds a licence. It cannot tell you the job is filed under a code that could never sponsor you, and once you know it can, it has nothing to say about whether your CV answers what that employer actually asked for.
| Can it do this? | Eligibly | Sponsor directories | Job boards | On your own |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Can this job sponsor me | ||||
| Search the sponsor register | Yes | Yes | Partly | Yes |
| Paste any advert and get a verdict | Yes | No | No | No |
| Work out the occupation code from the duties | Yes | No | No | No |
| Say that code is closed to you | Yes | No | No | No |
| Your personal salary floor, not a generic one | Yes | One figure | No | No |
| Check the licence covers Skilled Worker | Yes | No | No | No |
| Price NHS and teacher pay-scale roles | Yes | No | No | No |
| Link the rule behind every answer | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Does my CV answer it | ||||
| Read your CV against that specific advert | Yes | No | No | No |
| Judge each requirement by meaning, not keywords | Yes | No | No | No |
| Name the requirements you have not evidenced | Yes | No | No | No |
| Build an ATS-ready CV from your own words | Yes | No | No | No |
| Keep the advert, so the read is job-specific | Yes | No | No | No |
| Your CV is never stored, at all | Yes | No | No | No |
| Everything else | ||||
| Live vacancies to browse | No | Yes | Yes | No |
The last row is theirs, honestly: we have no job feed, and you will still need somewhere to find adverts.
No, and deliberately not. Eligibly tells you what the published rules say about a specific job. Regulated immigration advice is a different thing and needs an adviser registered with the Immigration Advice Authority.
The Immigration Rules and Appendix Skilled Occupations for codes and going rates, and the Home Office register of licensed sponsors, read monthly. Every answer links the rule it came from, so you can check rather than trust.
Some codes cannot be used to sponsor a new applicant. 291 of the 412 are in that position. It has nothing to do with how good you are at the job, and no salary changes it.
Each code has its own going rate, and as a recent graduate you qualify as a new entrant, which is 70% of it with £33,400 as the hard floor. A single national figure will be wrong for you in one direction or the other.
No. It is read in memory, the result goes back to your browser, and nothing is written to disk or to a database.
Yes, from your own account in two clicks, and you keep the month you paid for. There is nothing here designed to be hard to leave.
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